24 and plausible but, as any parlor psycho- analyst will tell you, they only half- state the case. On the other hand, when you state that large families are " h " an outrage upon t e woman, you are getting down to brass tacks. When you assert that woman has been Ha brood animal for the masculine civili- zations of the world," you may cause controversy, but you are not beating around the bush. From time to time, in such remarks as these, Mrs. Sanger has let herself go and revealed a femin- ism so violent as to scare half her sup- porters out of their wits if they thought she meant it. In "Woman and the New Race," published ten years ago, she attacked the sacredness and potency of the maternal instinct, which is no light thing to do in this mammy-sing- ing civilization; and she brought up unpleasant facts, like the prevalence of criminal abortion, as evidence that there is "a desire stronger than motherhood." Ideas like that are neither polite nor pretty, but if repeated loudly and often enough, they would start something. To the regret of Mrs. Sanger's Left \Ving followers she has not tried the experIment. Her Inarriage to William Sanger, the artist, took place in 1 900, and . :4 : , <'7'::: ,:'::":;:::::> : f:r ,,}l- ...-.i'f: : . )" ..}: f..' ..Ai':' . ....;..: :::::: ::,,:.. ::,.,!..' i :. ,::. :}''' :'{:'' "!?)'; ,. <.: uIJ Usv>v- p flt l her next ten or fifteen years were rendered turbulent by ill health, little money, and big ideas. Later she and :vIr. Sanger were divorced, and in 1922 she married Mr. J. Noah H. Slee, a philanthropic gen- tleman who was head of the Three-In-One Oil Company, and had for some years acted as angel to the birth-control move- ment. Today, at forty-seven, she is en- joying serenity both spiritual and material. She and Mr. Slee have their home at Willow Lake, in Fish- kill, New York, where he has built a long, rambling stone house, with many windows, and a terrace overlook- ing the lake. In warm weather they have tea In a summerhouse on the shore; Mrs. Sanger does her writing in a small hilltop studio surrounded by pine trees. You will note that she is a modified Lucy Stone Leaguer, keeping the name of her first husband, by which she became famous. In her private life, incidentally, she has an answer for those who picture her as some sort of neurotic monster. She is the mother of three children and insisted on having the first, against everyone's entreaties, when she stood on the verge of tuberculosis. Her two attractive sons, Stuart and Grant, are In \Vall Street and at Princeton, re- spectively, and are conceded to be shining exam- ples of successful child-raising. Her little girl, Peggy, died in 1 9 16. f ( , ') .,::<,. ;; '" . ....... :;:;r;t, \:-":; "',I .,\:t=:::: "::,:::'{-,, ..:.:':-:- '.:::: -s.' tit Iii ."J,i( i ; : , :.....,. :.' ::{,.....:.:. .:;::t::, .. .o:.::-::X: ",:Z:: ._"0;.:-:' , iff/; í M"::::" :>.,,%iï .:.:.:.: ,..' , <.' " . :-Æ; ...- .. . : . : , ; . ; . " , 1 : . :L:.. . J; 1 F ;;. Ã . :: ; i J , .",} ,, AT times the I"l. b i r th-con- trol question has looked like a per- sonal encounter between Mrs. Sanger and the Catholic Church. One may ask, however, whether the Roman hier- archy has not after all been her best friend. Sev- eral times its bl undering oppo- sition has focus- sed publIc atten- dULY 5, 19:} 0 + '_I ff tion on the birth- control move- ment which the 1 _,,' ,..."...,.-l :=l. """,,\;., ./ , :Y" .., . ,,::,:'>"::i?:':(I::: ::=\ . " ' ' ,.. ""W,,,,y;,,..,ä . :.",.,,)(,:''W::,< :,: ....., .. .. ..'.'.... .',' - :.::;Y . 0)- ...'. . ..:.:::-1- .......:.;.,.". movement was . . not IngenIous enough to win for itself. In the fall of 1 921 the first American birth- con trol confer- ence had been droning on for days about pop- ulation problems and other sizzling topics, with no one enough interested even to be shock- ed. Then the police broke up one of the meetings and turned the conference into a wow. It developed that Cardinal Hayes, then Archbishop, had called up Police Headquarters with advice as to the goings-on, and the raid had followed. The descent on the birth-control clinic last year had even more dramatic results. Policewoman Anna McNa- Inara posed as a patient, under orders froln Policewoman Mary Sullivan. (\Vhere Policewoman Mary Sullivan got her orders is a question veiled in mystery.) The police swooped down on the sedate white-curtained premises of 46 \V est F ifteenth Street, carting off two doctors, three nurses, a quan- tity of "exhibits," and about a hundred and fifty cards containing patients' records. The last was the master stroke, as it rallied the medical fratern- ity, who do not, collectively speaking, give a whoop about birth control, but who are extremely jealous of their prerogative of privacy. The case was promptly thrown out of court, but the free advertising made it necessary for the clinic to engage three extra workers and larger quarters, to handle the in- creased business. ::<8 ':.:,.... :.:.::'i : . ::.>! '.:::.:.J- ';i: ,:':"" :' ...:...:0)(.;': ..:.::::::::0::::'.: : ::;:i:j\:;;;;*:;::i f=1:}r::;:::;::::::::;::::t:}: " \ "., , ,. , ' . if't fil , .;y<{ .,.,:,." T HERE are, of course, resource- ful persons who keep their causes in the public eye without waiting for Heaven or their enemies to send them a boost. Mrs. Sanger has never been adept at juggling the diableries of pub- licity. Her strength is an overwhelm- ing sincerity and great personal cour- · age. Although she doesn't know how to trump up an issue, she will fight to the last ditch on a real one. Her advisers have sometimes cramp- ed her style. Witness the fracas which resulted in her withdrawal from the "American Birth Control League. The League, which she founded in 1921, has always been a monument of